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Friday, February 16, 2018

Windows 10 SendTo becomes Share

Bad Internet Advice: download Live Essentials

The internet is recommending downloading the old 'Live Essentials'.

(https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings/windows-10-send-to-mail-recipient-error/)
Live Essentials has not received support or security updates since January 2017. Please don't do this.

Send a file with Mail

To use the 'Modern' Mail app to send a file,

Right click on the file

Choose share instead of send to

Choose the mail app.

This won't help with other applications like your scanner that want to use the 'registered email client'. To do this, download a real email program.

To use sendto, add a full fledged mail app

emClient

http://www.emclient.com/

A modern looking email program with a free license for personal use.

Thunderbird

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/

An aged looking but functional free open source email program.

I would assume this issue is due to it being a Windows Universal Windows Platform app instead of a legacy mail program.